Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-201.124.190.24-20170529055520/@comment-6769189-20170530222015

No he was a guest character in Nocturne. The story also is incompatible with the DMC story.

Hideki Kamiya created VJ and he loves shoutout and homages to previously created characters. He included Dante because both are Capcom titles and had permission to do so.